whittle down
削减
常用释义
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基本释义
- 逐渐减少，逐步削减：逐渐通过去除部分使（某物）变小。
例句
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1·I finally managed to whittle down the names on the list to only five.我最后总算把名单上的名字减少到了只有五个。来源: 《牛津词典》
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2·They won't whittle down your salaries.他们不会削减你们的工资。
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3·They are trying to whittle down our salaries.他们正着手削减我们的薪水。
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4·Whittle down the debt by making small payments.通过小额支付来削减债务。
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5·Mr Selten's work let economists whittle down the number of possible Nash equilibria.泽尔腾的研究让经济学家减少了可能的纳什均衡的数量。
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6·But if you looked at them and said, "I want to reach the top five in online music," you can whittle down the list.但是，如果你看着他们说：“我想达到的五大在线音乐”，这意味着您可以削减名单了。
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7·Earlier efforts by Mr. Gates to whittle down his partner's stake in Microsoft were successful though, according to Mr.不过，按照艾伦的说法，盖茨之前就尝试过削减他在微软公司的股权比例，而且取得了成功。
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8·One of the central intellectual projects in the Constitution of Liberty is the Humean one to use reason to whittle down the claims of reason.《自由秩序原理》中的核心内容之一也是休谟使用的原因之一去削弱理性的主张。
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9·Nowak has been busy working on how to whittle down the emergence of life into the simplest possible chemical system that he can describe mathematically.Nowak 一直在忙着思考如何简化生命出现的过程，直至他有可能用数学描述这个最简单的化学系统。
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10·It has no official status yet, and must be formally approved before negotiators can start to whittle it down.该份草案尚不具备官方地位，并且在谈判开始之前，文本的削减必须获得正式批准。
同义词
v.
削减，削弱